swicthing from 2 part calcium&Buffer to aragamilk

[waipahu50]

Well i was planning to use a 2 part calcium & buffer for the meantime until its gone to kind of boost my coraline algae in the tank...But after its all gone I was going to swicth over to the argamilk to then takeover the same job that the 2 part has been doing.... Will the argamilk be enough to maintain the amounts and levels that the 2 part would supply....meaning proper calcium levels balanced buffer etc.....

Thankyou for all your time.....

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, boy...

See 2002 issue of AAOM by Randy.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... 2/chem.htm

And a recent thread by you.

http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p ... ht=#533113


>... Confirming Pankow’s calculation, this result is about what I got when I let both AragaMIGHT and Southdown aragonite sand sit in RO/DI water for a few days). Still, these calcium and alkalinity values are about 40X lower than for saturated limewater, so are likely not enough to satisfy the needs of most reef tanks....

>...Recently, several products have come onto the market that consist of calcium carbonate intended to be used without a reactor. These include AragaMIGHT (a fine powdered form of aragonite, which is itself just a crystalline form of calcium carbonate) and AragaMilk (a slurry of aragonite in water) made by CaribSea, and Kent’s Liquid Reactor (a slurry of fine calcium carbonate in water).

How can these be used to good effect in a reef tank? That question seems somewhat open to debate, and I disagree with some of the advice given by the manufacturers on the use of their products. Still, there are good uses for these products, and these will be detailed below.
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[waipahu50]

okay okay I'll I just go with the 2 part calcium "dupaboy"

But, Ive came acrrosed a product called calk by red sea do have any idea if this is effective as the 2 part calciums..


thankyou very much.....

 

[Anonymous]

any link about calk? I am many people will be more than happy to check it out.

 

[waipahu50]

Yeah I saw it at a mail order catalog at petsolutions.com where i found it in the additive section under the company name of red sea


...its called Red Sea Success Calk.....it seems to be a calcium and buffer put together like kalwasser but, isnt actually kalwsaeer could you possibly check up on it.....

 

[Anonymous]

Is this it? It looks like a powder, and you need to mix it before using. I would go with kalkwasser instead....